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Blackhawk Pit and Plant: 197 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

APAC-MS INC · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Blackhawk, Carroll County, MS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2200219

Blackhawk Pit and Plant has $98K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
1983–2024
Latest incident
Jul 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
197
citations
72
significant & substantial
$97,590
proposed penalties
$86,487
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,103 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See APAC-MS INC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
77
inspections on record
1,245
inspection hours
15.8
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
197 citations across 1,245 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2022-06-22.
On record since 2022.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Blackhawk Pit and Plant has $98K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$98K
proposed penalties
$97K
current assessed
$86K
paid to date
$10K
outstanding
193 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-03.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
37.1%
significant & substantial
16.5%
high negligence or reckless
37.1%
reasonably likely or greater
62.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.5% none, 6.2% low, 76.8% moderate, 16.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
12%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K proposed, $4K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-05-19.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2008-695M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $5K → $4K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2022-11-09, 3 years ago
7%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
38
samples
15
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz151 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg16
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz5
  • Arsenic fumes1
Show the individual readings (50)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 0.28 1.46 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2022-11-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Washer Operator
2022-11-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.33 0.55 Laborer, Bullgang
2022-11-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-10-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.36 0.67 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-10-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-10-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2019-10-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-11-08 Cobalt fumes 0 100 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Nickel fumes 0 1 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Molybdenum fumes 0 10 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Manganese fumes 0 5 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Lead fumes 0 150 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Iron oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Copper fumes 0.09 100 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Zinc oxide fumes 0 5 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Arsenic fumes 0 500 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Beryllium fumes 0 2 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Chromium, insoluble 0 1 0.00 Utility Man
2012-11-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-11-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-11-08 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Cleanup Man
2012-06-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.57 0.25 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-06-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 1.85 0.15 Truck Driver
2012-06-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-06-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.57 0.23 Washer Operator
2012-06-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2011-03-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-03-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2011-03-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2011-03-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.42 Screen/Scalper Operator
2007-06-06 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.56 Backhoe Operator
2007-06-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.48 0.35 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-06-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 1.41 0.30 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2005-06-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2005-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.47 0.30 Truck Driver
2005-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.42 0.55 Backhoe Operator
2004-01-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-01-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2004-01-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.07 0.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-01-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 2.31 0.16 Bulldozer Operator
2001-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2001-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2001-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 1.87 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-11-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.25 Bulldozer Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Blackhawk Pit and Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Mississippi, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 0.78 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 4.23 0.00 0.000
2023 * 4.84 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc 1950 to 2011
  2. APAC-MS INC 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 26
2025 25
2024 34
2023 24
2022 17
2021 15
2020 13
2019 12
2018 11
2017 11
2016 11
2015 14
2014 13
2013 14
2012 13
2011 17
2010 25
2009 24
2008 23
2007 23
2006 24
2005 26
2004 25
2003 27
2002 27
2001 27
2000 28
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Blackhawk Pit and Plant sits in Carroll County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Carroll County, Mississippi · Population 9,828
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$55,275
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 6,582 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 6,739 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 9,930 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 10,012 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,953 2 0 200.9
2025 Q1 10,084 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 13,554 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 13,694 0 0 0.0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,508 2 0 210.3
2024 Q1 10,519 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8,766 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 12,563 3 2 238.8
2023 Q2 10,626 2 1 188.2
2023 Q1 9,387 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8,830 5 3 566.3
2022 Q3 8,295 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 8,270 2 0 241.8
2022 Q1 7,639 1 1 130.9
2021 Q4 6,701 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,829 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 8,354 3 0 359.1
2021 Q1 7,021 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,749 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 6,921 6 1 866.9
2020 Q2 6,350 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6,375 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 6,755 2 0 296.1
2019 Q3 7,698 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,426 1 0 134.7
2019 Q1 5,613 3 0 534.5
2018 Q4 5,539 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,829 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,028 4 1 663.6
2018 Q1 4,952 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,094 1 0 196.3
2017 Q3 5,776 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 6,874 2 0 291.0
2017 Q1 5,076 1 0 197.0
2016 Q4 5,621 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 5,152 3 0 582.3
2016 Q2 6,011 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,857 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,144 4 1 651.0
2015 Q3 7,499 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 7,744 2 0 258.3
2015 Q1 5,108 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 6,966 2 0 287.1
2014 Q3 7,898 2 0 253.2
2014 Q2 7,251 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 6,332 2 1 315.9
2013 Q4 6,556 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 7,653 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 6,898 1 0 145.0
2013 Q1 5,903 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 6,983 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 7,511 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 7,942 1 1 125.9
2012 Q1 6,081 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 6,350 2 0 315.0
2011 Q3 8,007 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 7,668 2 0 260.8
2011 Q1 6,305 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 11,690 7 4 598.8
2010 Q3 11,793 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 10,784 6 5 556.4
2010 Q1 8,184 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 10,339 4 3 386.9
2009 Q3 12,598 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 11,140 8 2 718.1
2009 Q1 10,987 2 1 182.0
2008 Q4 12,473 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 12,803 2 1 156.2
2008 Q2 12,176 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 10,180 8 3 785.9
2007 Q4 13,600 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 12,522 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 12,644 14 8 1107.2
2007 Q1 10,945 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 13,213 1 0 75.7
2006 Q3 13,177 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 12,931 6 2 464.0
2006 Q1 11,772 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 12,619 13 5 1030.2
2005 Q3 13,690 1 1 73.0
2005 Q1 12,247 3 1 245.0
2004 Q4 13,947 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 12,980 1 1 77.0
2004 Q2 12,707 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 11,379 3 0 263.6
2003 Q4 14,843 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 13,327 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 15,017 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 13,136 2 0 152.3
2002 Q4 16,818 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 17,759 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 16,323 4 3 245.1
2002 Q1 11,671 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 13,304 8 2 601.3
2001 Q3 15,943 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 16,671 5 2 299.9
2001 Q1 17,171 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 15,544 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 20,492 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 19,756 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 16,547 19 4 1148.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2024 · 1 incident

July 25, 2024 MS · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
APAC-MS INC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Emp. Stepped off a track hoe and as EE turned to walk away EE stepped on the side of a rut and twisted EE's right ankle causing a fracture.

2023 · 1 incident

July 24, 2023 MS · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator OTHER
APAC-MS INC · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was coming down the stairs from the shaker deck platform onto the middle platform. When they turned and claimed to feel a small pop in right knee. They did not request medical treatment until 7/25/23, they were taken to the Co Dr and examined. It was determined that a pre-existing bone spur was causing the pain and swelling. EE was placed on LD and a follow up appt. on 7/28/23.

2010 · 1 incident

January 15, 2010 MS · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was climbing up to get on Bulldozer. Employee slipped and caught himself with his right arm on the track of the dozer, resulting in fracture to right wrist.

2008 · 1 incident

July 22, 2008 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting rubber belts with blade, knife slipped and cut little finger on right hand resulting in 6 stitches.

2006 · 1 incident

September 29, 2006 MS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck by falling object

Working on dozer on shop, rail mashed foot. EE waited around and then decided to go to doctor.

1985 · 2 incidents

December 9, 1985 MS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPR 980 FRONT E3D LOADER SER#89P2492 IN GRAVEL PIT BANK CAVED IN & TILTED LOADER FORWARD THROWING OPERATOR INTO STEERING WHEEL HURT LEFT SIDE ON STEERING WHEEL KNOB

August 5, 1985 MS · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc · Struck against a moving object

CLEARING LAND AND BANK CAVED AND DOZER SLIPPED SIDEWAYS.

1983 · 2 incidents

November 16, 1983 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

TRYING TO TIGHTEN BELTS ON SHAKER TO GET IT STARTED AND GOT FINGERS CAUGHT IN BELT

June 7, 1983 MS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
J J Ferguson Sand & Gravel Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING ON F RONT END LOADER & MASHED FINGER